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Rwandan Military Commander Guilty Of Genocide
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 9:44 am | United Nations
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today sentenced a former military commander to 25 years’ jail after finding him guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in a series of massacres in 1994 that included the killing ... More >>
UN Liberia Mission Opens Two Renovated Courthouses
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 9:40 am | United Nations
As part of its ongoing efforts to improve Liberia’s infrastructure as the once conflict-torn country embarks on the process of reconstruction, the United Nations peacekeeping mission there has officially opened two renovated courthouses. More >>
Assessment of Iran’s Nuclear Activities At Impasse
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 9:37 am | United Nations
The Director-General of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) today expressed “serious concern” about Iran’s lack of cooperation in allowing investigators to determine whether the country’s nuclear programme is for peaceful ... More >>
Traffic To Lebanon Is Returning To Normal
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 12:01 am | United Nations
With last week’s lifting of the Israeli air and sea blockade of Lebanon, the United Nations said today that air and sea traffic had begun returning to levels seen before the month-long conflict, while the UN food agency announced it would conduct a survey ... More >>
Iraq Is At ‘Crossroads’ Warns Annan
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 3:06 pm | United Nations
Iraqi society today stands at a critical juncture, says United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, warning that with Government figures showing an average of 100 civilians killed everyday and over 14,000 wounded each month, the State runs the risk of a ... More >>
UN Force Commander Discusses Troop Movements
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 11:35 am | United Nations
The United Nations military commander in Lebanon today discussed the continued Israeli withdrawal and Lebanese military advance into more parts of the country’s south with officers from both sides, saying they understood the need to proceed without ... More >>
‘Another Step In Years Of Effort’: Annan
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 11:28 am | United Nations
Welcoming today’s signing ceremony in Kazakhstan of the Central Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said it marks “another step in years of effort” toward such an agreement, adding he hoped it would also ... More >>
9/11 Attacks Were Against ‘Humanity Itself’
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 11:26 am | United Nations
Marking five years since the September 11 attacks on the United States, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said they were directed against “humanity itself,” as he urged all Member States to honour the victims of terrorism everywhere by implementing a ... More >>
Fighting In Darfur Cuts Of Thousands From Aid
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:59 am | United Nations
Hundreds of thousands of people in the volatile Darfur region of Sudan have gone hungry for three consecutive months because fighting and banditry have prevented the United Naitons World Food Programme (WFP) from reaching them, the agency’s ... More >>
People-Smuggling Sparks UN Warning
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:55 am | United Nations
The deadly annual people-smuggling season has resumed in the Gulf of Aden, prompting the United Nations refugee agency to warn that hundreds of people could perish attempting to travel from Somalia to Yemen this year unless authorities crack down on the activity. More >>
Annan Hails Civil Society Organizations
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:49 am | United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told more than 2,500 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered in New York for their last annual meeting before his term ends in December that the support of civil society groups ... More >>
Landmark Global Strategy To Combat Terrorism
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:46 am | United Nations
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a comprehensive global strategy to counter terrorism, overcoming differences between Member States and a year of often fractious negotiations to agree for the first time on a common approach to fighting ... More >>
UNESCO Chief Condemns Killing Of Sudanese Editor
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:40 am | United Nations
The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today spoke out against the recent kidnapping and beheading of Sudanese newspaper editor Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed in Khartoum and urged that the perpetrators ... More >>
UNESCO Sends Experts To Lebanon
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:38 am | United Nations
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today announced the dispatch of a mission of experts to Lebanon to assess the possible damage caused to historical sites in the recent conflict there. More >>
Annan Issues Stark Message About Dafur
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:33 am | United Nations
Warning that “the tragedy in Darfur has reached a critical moment,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the international community today to live up to its promise last year to protect civilians in trouble and immediately press the Sudanese Government ... More >>
UN Food Agency Starts Feeding Flood-Hit Nepalese
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:29 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) this week began feeding survivors of recent flooding in southwestern Nepal, nearly 80,000 people affected by extensive flooding who are believed to be cut off from regular access to food and shelter. More >>
DR Congo: UN Meets With Disarmed Rebels
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:24 am | United Nations
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator spent the second day of his visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and a demobilization site in the southern province of Katanga. More >>
Preventing Armed Conflicts - UN
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 10:19 am | United Nations
With armed conflicts raging around the world, prevention is too important to be left in the hands of governments alone, senior United Nations officials told the press in New York today on the eve of a General Assembly debate on Secretary-General Kofi ... More >>
Alliance Of Civilizations Meeting Makes Progress
Monday, 11 September 2006, 10:47 am | United Nations
Education, youth, immigration, women and media will be the priorities of the first major report by the Alliance of Civilizations, an initiative set up by Secretary-General Kofi Annan last year to try to bridge the gap between Islam and the West. More >>
UN Envoy In Afghanistan Condemns Murder
Monday, 11 September 2006, 10:45 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today condemned the assassination of the governor of Pakia province in the country's troubled southeast. More >>
